Remember that one McDonalds video of the cashier fighting off the two women? Grand jury has declined

[Led Zeppelin]

[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;33567759]A worker was assaulted [B]at his job[/B], and he fought back with strong, but non-lethal force. Period.

You cannot crucify someone for defending themselves.[/QUOTE]

You can if they use way more force than necessary, which this guy arguably did, depending on how you see it.

[ExplodingGuy]

[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;33567759]A worker was assaulted [B]at his job[/B], and he fought back with strong, but non-lethal force. Period.

You cannot crucify someone for defending themselves.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it was self defense, but when he started beating them on the floor it became borderline excessive.

[st_nick5]

This thread is gonna go the same way as the last one, I bet. Glad to see he wasn't charged in the end.

[catbarf]

How is continuing to beat your aggressors when they're on the floor self defense?

[Pardalis]

[QUOTE=catbarf;33568179]How is continuing to beat your aggressors when they're on the floor self defense?[/QUOTE]

She kept trying to get back up

[silentjubjub]

[QUOTE=catbarf;33568179]How is continuing to beat your aggressors when they're on the floor self defense?[/QUOTE]

when they try to get back up so they can hit you

[DiBBs]

[QUOTE=catbarf;33568179]How is continuing to beat your aggressors when they're on the floor self defense?[/QUOTE]

To keep them from getting back up and possibly succeeding in retaliating?

It's one thing disarming someone, but to keep them disarmed is something completely different.

[ayejayjay]

Some people ITT think it's better to let someone beat the shit out of you and possibly severely injure or kill you, and not to retaliate in order to save yourself.

[Clunj]

I was weighing up the options when replying to this thread, then this came to mind;

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ussCHoQttyQ[/media]

[Deunan]

To be honest it looks like a definite use of excessive force to me. As both the women were by then non-threatening and he kept hitting them with the weapon.

[stupid10er]

good.

[CaptainJL]

[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;33568327]Some people ITT think it's better to let someone beat the shit out of you and possibly severely injure or kill you, and not to retaliate in order to save yourself.[/QUOTE]
Shouldn't have assaulted the guy in the first place!

Seriously, what are you talking about?

[sYnced]

Judge was definitively not caucasian.

[OrionChronicles]

bitches had it coming

[Niklasgunner]

I still think he should have stopped when they were down.

[sa2fan]

Good, good! I thought he'd be charged because he hit two women.

[Reserved Parkin]

[QUOTE=igotwowhacke;33566331]STOOOP STOOOP
STOOOOOOP IT.[/QUOTE]

:suicide:

[Used Car Salesm]

I kind of wish they had charged him. Everything after the first hit is clearly not self defense any more.

[Shustriyvich]

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;33569360]I kind of wish they had charged him. Everything after the first hit is clearly not self defense any more.[/QUOTE]What if they were trying to get back up to attack him?

[thisispain]

good news for all people who work in fast food.

[garychencool]

I remember the debate in the initial thread.

[thisispain]

[QUOTE=garychencool;33569797]I remember the debate in the initial thread.[/QUOTE]

debate meaning a group of people getting hot and bothered over the notion of hitting someone with a metal pole?

kind of like when a fight breaks out in your local school yard and all the kids pick sides and scream things in a circle.

[Ronin]

Fracturing a skull and breaking an arm? That flimsy looking rod was a bit more extreme than I had previously thought.

[Midas22]

I hope this thread won't be locked like the previous one.

[n0cturni]

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;33567812]Yeah, it was self defense, but when he started beating them on the floor it became borderline excessive.[/QUOTE]

Well in his defense, you couldn't see what was going on back there, so they [i]could[/i] have been trying to keep attacking him by grabbing his legs or something.

[Spybreak]

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;33569834]Fracturing a skull and breaking an arm? That flimsy looking rod was a bit more extreme than I had previously thought.[/QUOTE]

Turns out it was a lead pipe.

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=Glitch360;33569410]What if they were trying to get back up to attack him?[/QUOTE]

He's still holding a fucking hunk of metal. Who do you think would have the upper hand if they were standing up.
What are they going to do, throw french fries at him?

[editline]4th December 2011[/editline]

I mean clearly the dude had the upper hand because he kind of already beat them to the ground with the pipe.

[thisispain]

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;33570462]He's still holding a fucking hunk of metal. Who do you think would have the upper hand if they were standing up.
What are they going to do, throw french fries at him?

[editline]4th December 2011[/editline]

I mean clearly the dude had the upper hand because he kind of already beat them to the ground with the pipe.[/QUOTE]

they have might have slapped him again. extreme situations require extreme solutions.

[Niklasgunner]

[QUOTE=thisispain;33570847]they have might have slapped him again. extreme situations require extreme solutions.[/QUOTE]

Exactly this phrase was on a poster for a communist party in Germany.

[Missing User]

Well, good. This man should have never been charged with it anyway. This is a simple case of self-defense.

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